‘This is appalling’: Twitter explodes over swastika-shaped New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

The New York Times over the weekend published its complex Sunday crossword puzzle like it always does. But the reliably tough clues were not what caught people’s attention. Instead, it was the pattern within the blackened squares that stirred up a frenzy on social media. The grid appears to form a swastika, and it was published right before the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah began at Sunday sundown. As can be expected, Twitter exploded with questions about how the word maze – entitled Some Theme’s Missing – made it through final editorial approval. READ MORE: Anti-LGBTQ slurs on Twitter up over 80…

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